P. G. Wodehouse, songwriter: Reference Sources

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• Till the Clouds Roll By

Research Resources: P. G. Wodehouse

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): P. G. Wodehouse
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• Wikipedia (name article)
• wodehouse.co.uk ("official website" for Wodehouse)
• pgwodehousebooks.com (website devoted to Wodehouse bibliography).
• P.G. Wodehouse Society (biography, songs, etc.).
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 (multiple references to Wodehouse).
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 550)
• Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (several references to Wodehouse).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (several references to Wodehouse)
• P. G. Wodehouse: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist, compiled by Eileen McIlvaine, Louise S. Sherby and James H. Heineman; illustrations by Peter Van Straaten, New York: James H. Heineman, c. 1990.
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (sub-chapter on plus several other references to Wodehouse).
• Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy, James H. Heineman, 1993.
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (multiple comments on Wodehouse's role in various shows).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 23-32, overview plus lyrics to eleven Wodehouse songs). Read the introduction to this book at NYTimes.com.
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 550-551).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 436-437).
• Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse, The Scarecrow Press, 2004.
• Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life, London: Viking, 2005.
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (entry for "Till the Clouds Roll By" plus incidental references).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (p. ).
• Wilfred Sheed, The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, New York: Random House, 2007 (paperback edition, 2008 -- several comments on Wodehouse and Kern)
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, pp. xx-xx).
• Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011 (mini-article on Wodehouse).
• P. G. Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, Ed. Sophie Radcliffe, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. Times article on the book, Jan. 30, 2013. review in the New York Times Book Reviewby Charles McGrath, March 8, 2013.
• Wodehouse documentary: gmk384

• photo portrait of P. G. Wodehouse: Wikipedia Commons

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